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CIFRA is a global platform where media art lives beyond exhibitions and biennials — through artists, curatorial context, and conversation
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Inside artists' practices
Live with leading voices of media art
Audience Q&A
Inside artists' practices
Live with leading voices of media art
These meetups are part of POWER: ON/OFF, CIFRA's 2026 season EXPLORING HOW POWER CHANGES — AND HOW ARTISTS RESPOND THROUGHT NEW VISUAL LANGUAGES, artistic disobedience, and alternative ways of seeing and shaping the world.

Explore the ideas and artistic practices shaping contemporary media art today
Upcoming Meetups
Dead Boys in Paradise. Theo Eshetu
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TURNING UNCERTAINTY
INTO ART
1 October
What if not knowing is part of the artistic process? Discover how Theo Eshetu lets meaning emerge along the way
David Elliot
moderatior
Theo Eshetu
speaker
Mirage: Eigenstate. Riar Rizaldi
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WHOSE MODERNITY?
5 november
Who decides what counts as "modern"? This conversation explores how power shapes history and our common knowledge—and how artists create space for other ways of imagining the contemporary.
Riar Rizaldi
speaker
Khaled Hafez
speaker
Khaled Ramadan
speaker
Camilla Boemio
moderatior
to be announced
november
to be announced
november
to be announced
december
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ARCHIVE
Rebuilding Archives
An archive is never neutral. It decides whose stories survive and whose disappear. Three artists discuss archives as both material and artistic methods.
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Watching Media Art
What even is media art today? Conversation with Li Zhenhua on how to approach media art, AI, and digital culture with an artist's eye
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Art of Digital Resistance
Discover how artists challenge the invisible systems behind the digital tools we use every day. Together, let’s imagine different ways of living with technology
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